Films Watched in Lecture Flashcards

Question

Russian Ark

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- super long take | - 1 shot=multiple scenes

Answer 2

-straight cut & accelerated editing

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- fade-in/fade-out & elliptical editing - Johnny Depp, trains - straight cuts when in same scene

Answer 4

- wipe | - old comedy

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-iris-in & graphic match

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- graphic repetition with difference | - 2 men walking, only see their feet

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-graphic match

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- creative geography | - looks like he came out of building when the interior was a set

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- overlapping editing | - pouring coins

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- establishing shot & re-establishing shot & shot-reverse shot - prison

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- consistent eyelines - guys looking at each other over pool table - indicate where man offscreen is

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-eyeline match

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- match on action | - moves from desk to phone

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-graphic discontinuity

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- crossing the axis of action | - having tea in japanese home

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-temporal discontinuity

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- pitch | - same pitch=compatible

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- dense sound mix - sound of guns, babies, screaming - all same volume - equal acoustic priority+dense=chaos

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- selective sound mix - Western film - music in the beginning - sound effects loud - other sounds lower volume once dialogue starts

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- fidelity | - lack of fidelity to perceived source

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-music switches diegetic and nondiegetic music in parking lot + roller rink

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- offscreen sound - sound of train offscreen as 2 ppl ride their horse - tracking + panning betw. tilda + guy toasting - turns into shot/reverse shot midway, disrupts pattern - stylistic shift=conversation shift

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- internal sound: voice in Norman's head - accelerating editing carries violence, cuts up Janet's body, climactic - sound high pitch, unnerving, repetitive, disturbing - usually work together in tandem

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- sound bridge & dialogue overlap (Clarisse + Hannibal convo) - synchronizes Bufallo Bill + FBI, we think same space - crosscutting: unrestricted narration-doorbell sound bridge) - expect to see 2 scenes merge - seems to be communicative, but misleads us

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-dense sounds

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- two shot whenever planning: - when in cahoots represented as a pair - shot/reverse shot when first meeting

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-we don't see marcellus wallace, only bruce willis

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- figure+camera movement in tandem - in tandem=choreography - longs shots because it takes more time to process

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- subjective narration - switches betw. subjective + objective - waking up from the coma

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- relatively communicative: tells us what her plan is + info she needs, what's gonna happen - uncommunicative narration: don't see Marnie (lack of frontality) or know who the guy is talking about

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-self-conscious narration: knows it is explaining the game with diagrams

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- restricted: deliberately limits knowledge to character-surprise - communicative: tells us what he is doing as he is doing it, but restricted

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-unrestricted: greater knowledge than character=suspense

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-uncommunicative

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- communicative voice over - uncommunicative: weren't told about Louisa's cancer - non diegetic voice over=self-conscious narration

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-film talks directly to us (red gnome, letters)

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- filmed African children running toward camera | - actuality

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- first real documentary - feature real ppl - assumes self-conscious narration - intertitles: tells us what we see - reality effects: maps, charts,,tables=sense of authority(empirical nature) - tells us it is imparting info+we see it - creative treatment: heavily edited (only highlights) - says more about Flaherty: racist assumptions - shaping (representing info to represent it as pop culture views) - detachment + voice-over narration

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- observational documentary - political campaign of JFK - handheld: not precise, but reactive - ppl don't look at camera - lots of editing from diff. camera - ambiguous: a little disoriented - more work deciphering - sound diegetic: conveys lots of info

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-participatory documentary

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- 8 testimonies of irreconcilable accounts - woodcutter knows more than he revealed - structured around flashbacks - contradictory accounts - POV of judge, static camera, high key lighting - sparse dialogue, strategic use of light, shadow, tonal values, choreod cinematography + editing

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- participatory documentary - more interrogative than declarative - part of process - interview Miss America

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- rhythm - rhythm of sex dictates rhythm of other actions - cuts + movement get faster + faster until climax - sound rhythm influences editing rhythm, incorporates more sound, actions speeds up, shot scale gets smaller, camera moves quicker

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- multistory plot - focused perceptual engagement in club - acid alters perceptive faculty - close up let us know it is her experience we are seeing

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- associational form - categorical - organized material in associational form - experimental - editing plays with graphic relations to evoke certain concepts - everything in stasis, a city asleep - then everything becomes animated, wake up - a day in the life

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- transformation of narrative - love triangle - nondiegetic tells us what 2nd woman is saying - waivering camera movement - inter titles - we know it is being told to us - condense story of man can't choose betw. 2 women in movement - relationship through dance - way story is told influences what story is + how we relate to it - radical questioning of narrative conventions

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- first film where director edited together shots to create a narrative - regarded film as a spectacle + fantasy - laid groundwork for imaginative cinema - characterized by artifice, actors only authentic - not limited by real world rules - stop motion + superimposition (layering of film) to create fantastical world - umbrella turned into mushroom: freeze then change then continue action, only one thing changes

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- pixillation - stop animation - meat dancing

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- pixillation - animating ppl in a real world setting - high ppl over flower

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- deviates from our world (has talking ogres + donkeys), creates fantastic world - created world that is familiar, simulates live action techniques

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- teach animation process - shows how painstaking + time consuming animation is - metamorphosis

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concerned with political effects of capitalism, modern times, repetitive task of tightening bolts •Worker becomes appendage of the machine, worth nothing more + nothing less than wage

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style of the past •Neo-noir film: new spin on old film genre that emerged in 40s •Film noir: femme fatale

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constant pastiche, storyline in some established form •Referring to post apocalyptic thriller •Mixing of multiple styles

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oCredits part of diegesis oPlasticity of living room space oInclusion of text that identifies characters oUniversal 16 bit oGraphic novel features: sound represented graphically oDialogue is artificial oSelf reflexivity used to position this film in larger context mediascape oAssumption that we’re gonna get all the intertextual references oShows its savviness on popular culture oMeant to be fun, it’s just a film, don’t have to take it seriously

Answer 56

oShane is wearing white hat, antagonist wearing black oShane is low angle, always looking up non diegetic slow drumming that builds tension, speaks to the presence of native American community oMost commonly orchestral music oShane: becomes part of community, finds out about the threat, eradicates threat, rides off into the sunset

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playing versions of themselves •Reinforce/undercut their performance •Seth Rogen: playing to type perfectly •Acknowledges that it’s what he’s known for: guy’s guy •Michael Cera: different + antithetical •Acknowledging personas as something constructed

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generic 80s rock music, raciness + excitement, erotic, no sense that it’s a transaction, elliptical editing, high points in sexual activity, comes out of nowhere, body’s focused on in long shot, from perspective of Tom Cruise’s character, we are identifying with him, conventionally attractive to hollywood standards, low key + side lighting glamourizing prostitute

Answer 59

more nondiegetic sound effects, noises + uncomfortable, doesn’t pull us in the mood, pragmatic, focus on money, economic transaction, get a real sense of the procedure, systematic routine of prostitution, different treatment of bodies, body is very different, bright + flat, high key, hard, not flattering to actors, average looking body, no eroticism through ambience •Understanding of interaction + what prostitution involves is very differently represented •Estrangement similar to radical film

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concerned with state of women’s life in contemporary context •Radical film made with a feminist agenda •Laura Mulvey explains what they are attempting to do: sphinx part of Oedipal myth that we don’t talk about •Sphinx speaks in question: question after question is raised •13 sections: each question is composed of single 360 degree pan + voice over tacking series of issues related to women’s lives

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* never settling: very brief shots of women – way of filming women that doesn’t serve to objectify them/in a position to be appearing for audience * glimpse of women engaging in their environment: we don’t objectify them/scrutinize them

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* challenging conventions in terms of content + form * not accessible to most audience: not widely distributed, margins of commercial cinema, you have to seek it out, unenjoyable to a lot of ppl, you have to understand theoretical debates + political issues

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integrated himself in Casbah – white european protagonist set against exotic backdrop •Pepe integrated into community, becomes more inscrutable, dangerous, yet still not the same, but set off •Not relegated to backdrop/margins of the screen •Negative associations with nonwhite characters •Object of suspicion + agression

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come across an aboriginal boy in a walkabout, encounter between 2 cultures •Assumption he hasn’t evolved •Enchanted with aboriginal boy – pure, good, not tainted by modern life (alienation, mechanization), being celebrated for things that they were criticized for

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hollywood genre + set of conventions + displaces it in Canada giving it a Canadian inflection •Tensions fom specifically Canadian experiences + lives •Most popular Canadian film